Exilarch

The exilarch[a] was the leader of the Jewish community in Persian Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq) for most of the time from the Parthians era, Sassanid Empire, and the Abbasid Caliphate, until the Mongol invasion of Baghdad in 1258.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Hebrew: Rosh HaGola (ראש הגולה, 'head of the exile'); Aramaic: (ריש גלותא, Reysh Galuta or Resh Galvata)

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